Apple has filed a lawsuit to overturn a ruling ordering it to help the FBI hack the smartphone of terrorist Siad Farouk. The statement says that this requirement violates the First Amendment to the US Constitution, which protects freedom of speech, reports Reuters. "The government's request ... violates Apple's First Amendment right not to be compelled to speak," the text reads. Apple lawyers cited the Bernstein v.

On February 25, the Italian Senate passed a bill legalizing same-sex civil unions. 173 senators supported the initiative, 71 voted against. The document will now go to the lower house of the Italian parliament for consideration. The document provides for the introduction of any civil unions in Italy - both heterosexual and homosexual. Previously, civil unions, including for same-sex couples, were recognized only by certain cities and regions of the country.

A spokesman for the Russian Defense Ministry has responded to a new report by the investigative group “Bellingcat” about the Russian military's alleged involvement in the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, calling it “a bunch of conspiracy theories” that aren't worth any “serious comment.” The ministry's representative added that previous reports by Bellingcat “have repeatedly been debunked by bloggers and experts.”

Disturbing numbers Almost constantly for the past several months, the Russian authorities have reported reductions in the legal production and consumption of alcohol. It's true that Russians weathering an economic recession have started drinking less (when it comes to alcohol sold legally, anyhow), and alcohol sales have been hit, too, by a ban on selling liquor in the middle of the night. Nevertheless, when examined in absolute figures, Russia's situation with alcohol is still a nightmare.

The Russian football club "Krasnodar" lost to the Prague "Sparta" with a score of 0:3 in the second match of the 1/16 finals of the Europa League and dropped out of the tournament. The match took place on the evening of February 25 at the Kuban Stadium in Krasnodar. All three goals were scored in the second half of the meeting. On 51 minutes, Lukas Mareczek opened the scoring, six minutes later Martin Frydek scored the second goal.

A Moscow court has fined a Sergei Vyatkin 10,000 rubles ($132) under regulations adopted in 2012 that were designed to police public assemblies. The man's crime was performing music near the entrance to a mall outside Red Square. Vyatkin says he sat on the stairs outside the shopping center and no more than two people ever walked past him at one time.

The Russian Ministry of Defense has denied information about the possible involvement of Russian military personnel in the crash of the Malaysian Boeing MH17 in southeastern Ukraine, published by the Bellingcat research group. RBC reports this. “Not a single air defense complex in service has crossed the Russian-Ukrainian state border,” says the ministry’s press service in response to the publication’s request.

The requirements for the activities of news aggregators, set out in the submitted draft law to the State Duma on February 25, are not feasible. This is stated in the statement of "Yandex", dedicated to the initiative of the deputies. The company points out that the requirement to verify the accuracy and legality of the information disseminated puts news aggregators "in much tougher conditions than the media," which are not responsible for information reprinted from other media.

Photo: Mahdy Mehraeen / Unicef ​​Afghanistan / AFP / Scanpix Five -year -old Murtase Ahmady from Afghanistan became famous after he was photographed playing football in a cellophane bag. On a homemade striped "T -shirt" the pen was displayed "Messi" and number 10. The boy’s father said that he is a simple farmer and cannot buy a T -shirt to his son. But he loves Lionel Messi so much that he decided to play in the bag.

The general producer of the Match TV channel, Tina Kandelaki, is negotiating the sale of the Apostol agency. RBC reports this with reference to a source familiar with the situation. This, according to the source, is a “shareholder deal”, as a result of which the controlling shareholder in the company will be replaced. Among the new shareholders may be an “international investment fund”, as well as the company’s top managers. The deal is planned to be closed by the end of the first half of 2016.

On February 25, Lokomotiv Moscow played a draw at home with Turkish Fenerbahce. The match ended with the score 1:1. In Turkey, Fenerbahce beat the Russian club with a score of 2:0, so it will go to the 1/8 finals. The match in Turkey took place on 16 February. After the end of the game, midfielder Dmitry Tarasov walked across the field in a T-shirt with a portrait of Russian President Vladimir Putin on his chest. For this, the club fined him 300,000 euros.

Employees of the Australian reserve Simbio Waldlife Park treated the cubs of Edipov Tamarin (this type of monkeys) with ice cream. Thus, the monkeys helped to transfer the heat - in Sydney the temperature rose to 40 degrees Celsius. Compared to Tamarins themselves, a piece of ice cream seems huge, but this did not stop them with joy to eat it. Symbio Wildlife Park Baby Monkeys Enjoying An Ice-Block

As a result of the accident at the Severnaya mine in Vorkuta, two miners died. A law enforcement source told TASS that the bodies of the dead were found by rescuers. Earlier it became known that as a result of the incident eight people were injured, 79 were evacuated. This was reported to a TASS correspondent by the head of the press service of JSC "Vorkutaugol" Tatyana Bushkova.

Shot: Chris Pritchard / Vimeo The photographer Chris Protchard made a timelapse from the filming of landscapes. He worked for five years on the creation of material for the video. Filming was carried out in 42 different places, including in Chicago, New York and the Death Valley in California. When viewing, select 4K quality. So the shooting looks completely unbelievable. Chris Pritchard Skylight

In Canada, right during the hockey match, the player was detained-21-year-old Olivier Markott from the Hoki Expert team from Sherbruck. Markott, dissatisfied with the removal, attacked a linear judge with fists. The judge won, and soon the hockey player was pressed to the ice with two arbitrators. After that, the police officers on duty went on the ice and took Markott. The hockey player was released the same night, they did not begin to charge any accusations.